👷♂️Man Construction Worker Emoji
Generally, it means someone is working hard or involved in construction or building. People use it to show support for someone’s job or to express a need for someone to do something physically demanding.
The 👷♂️ emoji is a construction worker wearing a hard hat.
- Unicode
- U+1F477 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :male-construction-worker:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👷♂️ Man Construction Worker emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 11.
Man Construction Worker emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the man construction worker as 5 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Man Construction Worker emoji skin tones
👷♂️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Man Construction Worker emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :male-construction-worker:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the man construction worker, code point U+1F477.
How to type the 👷♂️ Man Construction Worker emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F477 when there is no key at all.
Man Construction Worker emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man construction worker as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Man Construction Worker emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man construction worker for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👷♂️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👷♂️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 👷♂️ means in other countries
Same dual reading as the rest of the set: literal job, or the informal “this isn’t done yet” marker online.
An actual worker on a construction or building site, doing the job
Marks unfinished work, an early draft, or a beta feature being tested
Home improvement, remodeling, or renovation reference in a caption or post
Before you send it: Safe in any register; use it whenever you want to flag something as still in progress.
What 👷♂️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the man construction worker lands changes how it is taken.
👷♂️ vs 👳♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Construction Worker
Code: U+1F477 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :male-construction-worker:
Generally, it means someone is working hard or involved in construction or building.
Unicode name: Man Turban
Code: U+1F473 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-wearing-turban:
Generally, it means a man with a turban.
Where the 👷♂️ Man Construction Worker emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F477 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Man Construction Worker was approved as U+1F477 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👷♂️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.